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  • Jesus Prayer

    The last week has brought me each day to take a look at what is known as the "Jesus Prayer". It is one very simple prayer, in one thought, which communicates and professes a myriad of things. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of G…

  • ...poverty...

    I cannot do and live out the Beatitudes very well, which is why Jesus is Savior before Teacher. He makes me what he teaches me to be.My sense of not being able to fulfill the Beatitudes and the life Jesus teaches me to l…

  • the startled poor

    How startling would it have been to be poor and hear Jesus say, "Blessed are you"? What if you were mourning? Something that brings such hardship and is seen as a curse in some (most) cultures is now being told to you is…

  • If there were a book that...

    How did Romans become the most common book for communicating the Gospel? I submit that 1 John take its place. If I were to pick a 'favorite' book of the Bible that had so gripped my heart to actually change the way I liv…

  • Growing Old

    Bread and juice eaten daily grows stale and paleBut remembering I am loved enough someone would take on my eternal capital punishment;that never gets old.

  • Hurt for the Hurtful

    God my God, When I look at those who have hurt me or have hurt someone close to me, teach me to see where that person has been hurt. Speak to my heart that I may see the hurtful person in light of a hurting person who …

  • No more forgiveness talk

    There is a story of a moment when a man named Rich had been in an argument with a friend that ended in an abrupt bitterness. The story would have it that Rich, later that evening, would show up at the friends house and …

  • Healing Machine

    You never realize just how many people Jesus healed when you don't read the Bible (or even just the book of Matthew or another gospel) straight through as I have been. I am stricken by how many people were constantly fo…

  • A good little boy

    As Christmas approached, I was always asked the same question you were asked. "Have you been a good boy?" (or girl...maybe it wasn't the SAME question). What a question! This would have been the closest I would have know…

  • deeply distressed

    God, You continue giving me opportunities to reach a group of people with your love and your words. Please give me the wisdom and creativity I need to most effectively communicate your love and word to this group Your…

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